Brown’s late kick helps Giants edge Saints

While that doesn’t always translate to the National Football League, the Saints were hoping that he could become that type of impact player at the next level.

The Giants offense was sluggish for much of Sunday’s contest. Brees started off his 16th season in the league on a heater, torching the Oakland Raiders for 423 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-34 loss.

After the Giants went ahead 13-10 on Brown’s first of two field goals, Wil Lutz tied the game at 13 with a 45-yard field goal with 2:54 to play. The point totals for those meetings: 75, 73, 79, and last year’s 101-point shootout.

The Giants and Saints have met each other 28 times.

Several players signaled for the medical staff immediately and the Giants’ training staff came off their sideline due to proximity of the play and checked on Williams.

They were unable to sustain that momentum though as the Saints were able to get a field goal before halftime.

An offensive pass interference on first down forced Lutz to attempt a 38-yard field goal.

The Giants would answer with a field goal of their own in the third quarter to take a 10-3 lead. “But if we’re winning games and you keep kind of making your way up the chart, then that’s not such a bad thing”.

Drew Brees moved past Dan Marino into third place on the all-time passing yards list by completing an 8-yard out to Coby Fleener midway through the second quarter of the Saints’ game against the Giants.

65 Yards in distance on the return for a touchdown by the Giants’ Janoris Jenkins after the field-goal block.

The Saints, however, weren’t able to capitalize on the Giants’ miscues, though they came close to doing so after driving to the 20-yard line following the turnover by Manning. Without any timeouts, all the Black and Gold could do was watch NY run out the clock and win it at the end of regulation.